archived meeting notes— 10.8.01 | 10.3.01 | 9.26.01
Meeting
Notes | 10.10.01
Location: Education 155
Facilitating: Colin Goldblatt
Agenda:
- Introduction
- Current events discussion
- What we're doing
- Walk Out preparations
- Announcements
- Split into active groups
Introduction
Current events discussion
- Food drops (not helping, not enough food, destruction of food, poor drop areas)
- running of out targets in Afghanistan
- Bombing causes starvation (and further destruction of an already destroyed country!)
- Anti- American protests being watched (or stopped in some cases) in foreign countries
- Warnings to other nations (Indonesia, Pakistan) re: poetntial bombings in those countries (not idle threats?)
What we're doing
- "Extreme tabling" for national day of action (10-2pm, outside UMC) ~visual
- flyers (bring stuff to the table!)
- Petition (hope to gain 2,500 signatures)
- Chalking
- Walk out to deliver petition to Chancellor Byyny
Walk Out preparations
- Can we logistically gain enough signatures in a week?
- is two weeks too long to wait (will we lose momentum and energy?), Give us time to research? Will the petition be applicable in two weeks?
- Consensus vote to keep walk out on October 18 (giving us one week to gain signatures)
Announcements
- Boulder School of the Americas (now WHISC?) Watch meeting, 6pm, UMC Forum room (free food, movies, discussion, etc.) 10.11.01
- Card's for Colin's jailed friends
- La Mitzvah/Wage Peace Now T-shirts (to raise $$ for legal fees) on sale at OUR table tomorrow ($10 donation)
- Ingo Muscio
(author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence) speaking, 6pm,
Old Main 10.11.01
Small Group Action
- See Colin's e-mail for the petition statement, various discussions/actions from other groups
